joining us now is democrat peter fenn he's the strategy. head of ten communications peter is one of the nation's leading political and public affairs experts and that firm is quite successful in that end and read so small can the deputy managing editor of the full politico that's the nation's leading political website i think they both heard from our congressman friends also with you peter what do you think of his thoughts that mr snowden is a traitor well i'll tell you i think there's no question that he probably violated the law by releasing. what he did but i'll tell you something larry i am extraordinarily concerned about the collection of material on american citizens one of my first jobs in this town was to work on the frank church committee so-called church intelligence committee i was assigned to n.s.a. we were concerned then about the vacuum cleaner effect the agreements that they had with western union and that time i t.n.t. to swoop up and collect information on an american citizens we tried to stop but they had watch lists with

thanks to our guest congressman aaron schock coming up democratic political strategist peter fenn and every managing editor of politico rachel spoken with. the. it was quite good news if you've never seen anything like that on cold. war. in. iraq. the boy. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. the title. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes cars are run no holds barred look at the global fund. headlines tune into kinds of reports and. joining us now is democrat peter fenn he's the strategist head of ten communications teeters one of the nation's leading political and public affairs experts and that firm was quite successful in that and then read so small can the deputy managing editor of the for politico that's the nation's leading political website i think they both heard from our congressma

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